spitting snake

British

noun

another name for the rinkhals

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Blue-furred, orange-eyed, red-fanged, a tiger snarled upon his left biceps; a spitting snake, coiled around a dagger, slithered down his arm; and elsewhere skulls gleamed, a tombstone loomed, a chrysanthemum flourished.

From Literature

As though alarmed by a spitting snake, Collingwood flinches suddenly as he evades a very nasty Johnson bouncer.

From BBC

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